The Department of Military Hygiene is divided into several relatively independent groups, the work of which is interconnected and it complexly covers the basic issues of the relation of life and job environment to the health of the individual.

• In the area of Hygiene of Nutrition and Occupational Hygiene, attention is paid namely to the incidence and prevalence of risk factors of non-infectious diseases of mass incidence, rational food, catering of troops in peacetime and wartime conditions – emergency food rations, assessment of the proper received and consumed energy. Occupational Hygiene is focused above all on response of the organism to work in protective clothing and severe climatic conditions and on evaluation of the degree of risk connected with environment contamination.
• The Group of Communal Hygiene is oriented on the analysis of selected physical and chemical factors of external environment in the conditions of the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR) It studies the possibilities of use of chemical substances for disinfection effects.
• Psychology of Health (Psycho-hygiene, Mental Hygiene) is an inseparable part of the Department teaching and research. A bio-psychosocial model of health (disease) is its theoretical and methodological basis. At present, attention is paid to the following areas: vulnerability (hardiness) and its role in occurrence and development of disease, coping with stress and difficult life situations, current knowledge in the area of changes of behavior as a part of therapy of chronic patients and prevention of social and pathological phenomena. The mentioned areas are included in teaching, research and advisory activities of the department.

Updated 4/2011